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Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral. By: Diana Reynolds V ictoria Rodriguez McKenzie Heagney Kelli DeVanna. Gabriela Mistral was born on April 7, 1889 in Vicuña, Chile. Gabriela died on J anuary 10,1957 in the U.S. Gabriela was born into poverty. Born as Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga

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Gabriela Mistral

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  1. Gabriela Mistral By: Diana Reynolds Victoria Rodriguez McKenzie Heagney Kelli DeVanna

  2. Gabriela Mistral was born on April 7, 1889 in Vicuña, Chile Gabriela died on January 10,1957 in the U.S.

  3. Gabriela was born into poverty. • Born as Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga • She was abandoned by her father at 3 years old. • By age 15, Gabriela supported her family. • Her lover, a young railway worker, committed suicide, which she told of in “Dolor”

  4. Gabriela went to school for three years at 9 years old. • She earned a degree for teaching as an adult • She was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945

  5. Our three choices of works by Gabriela Mistral are the poems: • Tiny Feet • To See Him Again • The Lark Three Works by Gabriela Mistral

  6. Summary: A child is left outside in the cold. People go by the child without doing anything. The child has no shoes on. Tiny Feet

  7. Question: Who is the child left out in the cold? Tiny Feet

  8. Clarifying: The child is Gabriela Mistral, who was abandoned by her father as a child of only three years old. The wounds are the mental and emotional scars left by the abandonment. Tiny Feet

  9. Summary: The poem explains multiple instances when she will never see the man again. To See Him Again

  10. To See Him Again Question: Who is the man that the author describes?

  11. To See Him Again Clarifying: The man is Francis, Gabriela’s lover who committed suicide.

  12. The Lark Summary: Mistral explains to her lover that she wanted their relationship to be like the flight of a lark, heading for the sun.

  13. The Lark Question: What is flight symbolizing?

  14. The Lark Clarify: The flight symbolizes their relationship, which would have its ups and downs.

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